Hemsky, Gagner, both our 2nd round picks, next year's 1st and 2nd rounders, sure, this year's first round pick? Hell no. We could be top 4 and get a guy like Barkov there.

Absolutely the 1st round pick should be on the table top 5 or not. This team is beyond repair without an instant injection of heart size and grit. That 1st pick along with a Gagner or Hemsky could land us a Weber type D-Man.
Another young kid is not going to help us, at best he'll be 3 years until he amounts to much. Do you think we can wait 2 or 3 years before we turn things around?

The time is now to surround the young guns with some give a damn players who want to win. Smitty, Jones, Hemmer et al need to go one way or another. Windows of opportunity are small in this game just ask the Canucks. Even if they load up this summer it will be 2 years before they become any sort of threat. Delaying that in order to draft another talent could push things too far.

The Ducks "A Game" sure looked a hell of a lot like a team that got a 2 goal lead and coasted the rest of the way because they knew they could sleep walk through the rest of the game and not face any actual adversity.

I asked myself that question out loud and a chill ran up my spine, before my mind was filled with apocalyptic visions. Once the seizure subsided I came to the conclusion that some questions are better left unasked.

The Ducks "A Game" sure looked a hell of a lot like a team that got a 2 goal lead and coasted the rest of the way because they knew they could sleep walk through the rest of the game and not face any actual adversity.

We have enough "studs" to develop already.
Package the first rounder up with one of the assets you mention above and get me a few guys who already know how to play NHL hockey.

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Originally Posted by mactforcoach

Absolutely the 1st round pick should be on the table top 5 or not. This team is beyond repair without an instant injection of heart size and grit. That 1st pick along with a Gagner or Hemsky could land us a Weber type D-Man.
Another young kid is not going to help us, at best he'll be 3 years until he amounts to much. Do you think we can wait 2 or 3 years before we turn things around?

The time is now to surround the young guns with some give a damn players who want to win. Smitty, Jones, Hemmer et al need to go one way or another. Windows of opportunity are small in this game just ask the Canucks. Even if they load up this summer it will be 2 years before they become any sort of threat. Delaying that in order to draft another talent could push things too far.

Add some actual NHL players to our bottom 6, a better 2C, and a couple of NHL defensemen and we are a much better team. I'm not interested in dealing our 1st round pick unless it returns an impact player like Weber and we can also address at least the 2C issue via a separate move.

As much as I'd like to be fair to Krueger I really think next years team needs an NHL coach with plenty of experience like Ruff. Krueger might be ok in the AHL or something like that but he's clearly not ready to coach at this level. We need a coach that can get the team to believe in themselves and start earning respect around the league. THis is going to be one deep hole to climb out of.